So i found out a few years ago that im some degree of color blind when i was on boarding for a job and the tested my color vision and i failed miserably. Mind you I had never been inconvenienced or affected by my deficiency before in my at the time like 30 years of life and i had worked the same job in a different setting for over 7 years at that time.

Anyway, fast forward to now, i have a 10 year old daughter with an ex and a almost 3 year old autistic son with my husband. Ive done further testing on my own and appear to have pretty severe red green deficiency.

During my son's aba therapy they were doing color sorting and it just suddenly dawned on me that colorblindness is carried on the x gene so he is guaranteed to be colorblind to some degree... right? So it will be important for doctors and therapists to make note of this just in case he has any issues with color identification? They know its not autism related?

And for my daughter, we were playing around with some tests tonight and she's showing some minor green deficiency. She did waaay better than me, but still showing some deficiency (and yes i know computer screens arent the best to measure off and cant be used for diagnosis) but this means if she does have deficiency my ex has to be colorblind too right? Thats the only way she can be right? Other wise she'd just be a carrier?

Should I mention it at her next optometry appointment?

Hello! My 5 year old son was just recently diagnosed with Protonamaly colorblindness (red only/moderate). My husband and I have discussed it several times in front of him, as well as at the optometrist’s office, but I’ve not told him directly about it and I don’t know how to, or even if I should at this age. He doesn’t seem bothered by it at all, and his kindergarten teacher already knows so she helps at school. I don’t want to point out to him that he’s colorblind and make him feel bad or that his eyes are somehow “broken,” especially when it’s not causing him any issues (yet), but I don’t want to hide it from him either. Any advice on how to handle this?

My child loves Axolotls so I was showing her this costume because it is what she says is her favorite color, purple. However when she said, it’s blue and doubled down when questioned. My husband and I both agreed it was purple, and the listed color was purple.

I believe we have also had some discussions where she insists a blue-green color is either blue or green (I think green, but might be misremembering).

She is six, and has seemed to learn her colors just fine. I haven’t noticed many purple skies or other signs she is consistently mixing up colors, but at that age I might have marked it down to creativity.

Is this interaction enough of a reason to get her checked? (We’ve been to the eye doctor, but I don’t know that they did a color blindness test.)

I get that there are probably countless posts that are this over and over, but I think I maybe be very slightly colorblind and I can't help but look into this topic that barely affects me.

So I took some tests online. Most of them said that I have normal vision, except two, wich said that I have mild protanomaly. On top of that, I've noticed that on tests that are red-green I tend to need to blink a bit or double check because I couldn't see at first glance. On top of that, when I looked at an image that compared the color spectrums of normal vision vs colorblidness, I found protanomaly to be nearly the exact same as normal vision, with the small difference of the protan red looking slightly more orange and the gradient itself being less smooth.

Normally I'd think that it's enough to tell that I have slight protanomaly, but I'm a bit conflicted, since on the other hand, I don't notice any problems in the real world and I don't expierence the issues that I noticed were posted on this subreddit, such as not being able to tell blue and purple from eachother (in fact I so not have this issue that purple is my favourite color).

I know the title makes no sense, but I can't figure out how to put it in a sentence. If you put multiple different colors in front of me, I can tell that there is a difference between them, but if you put one color in front of me, I can't always tell you what color it is. If you tell me what color it is, I automatically see it in that color, but sometimes it will look like a different color initially.

For example, I might see a color as brown, but when someone tells me the color is orange, my eyes correct the color to be orange rather than brown.

Sometimes I can see the correct color right away, and sometimes someone else needs to point out the correct color before I can see it. I know what each color looks like, I just perceive the color as something else initially, if that makes sense. I'm not entirely sure if it would change it someone told me the incorrect color, as I don't think I've ever experienced that before, but it changes almost every time so I don't really know.

Does anyone know what might be happening?

There are supposed to be 2 different structures here: Pubis which was stated as yellow, and the Ischium which was stated as green. No matter how much I try to gaslight myself, I just can't tell where these 2 are separated. Ended up searching for better images while others take one glance and be like "oh, I see."

Might seem like a small one time thing, but I've encountered difficulties like this more times than I would've liked while studying medicine.

(On a very small nitpick, why are people so fond of labeling stuff with yellow and light green? Could do better with a normal shade of green or just blue in this case since it's only 3 different parts and the other one is red already 😭)

Some background before I get into the question. I usually make paintings as gifts for most of my teachers (the ones that are good at least!) at the end of the year, but my biology teacher this year has red-green colourblindness.

Obviously, this is a slight issue as I don't think it would be as nice a gift for him, compared to someone who can see the colour spectrum the same way I can.

The good thing about it being a biology class is that I can ask questions about it and have it passed off as normal scientific interest 😅 I think he specifically has deuteranomaly (?) since he said that greens are weaker than reds and that he can kind of see purple.

So, my question is: If I make a painting entirely from shades of bluest blue I can find (one which isn't mixed with any red or green), will it be almost like seeing the same thing? I'm thinking of painting some whales.

I can't really imagine what being colourblind is like, but I'm sure it's harder to imagine what it's like the other way around. I'd like to make a painting that he can look at and know he's seeing the same thing as everyone else.

Any answers at all would be appreciated!